Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well over a decade, the Yard athletic program has limped along like a nervous ghost, always threatening to sink dejectedly into a nearby grave, and rarely showing signs of purpose or composure. Freshmen have groaned through their regular grind in the gym, and perhaps played a game or two of pickup softball, but there has been no integrated inter-dormitory sports organization. Now, however, negotiations between Yard officials and the Athletic Association seem to promise well-arranged Freshman intramurals in the future...
...roughly after the extensive inter-House athletic system, it would be a simple way for Freshmen to work off the required weekly hours of physical training, and team competition will undoubtedly prove much more attractive than impersonalized gym classes. Existing athletic facilities should be able to take care of Yard intramurals with little strain. Even if extra supervisors and equipment are needed, it seems clear that a Freshman sports program deserves them...
Burke hopes to get an Activities Coordinator installed early next fall, so that the pre-election months will not see too much fist-fighting and epithet-slinging in the neighborhood of the Yard...
With the revelation that upperclassmen living in the Yard next year will be given non-resident House privileges, the House masters have at long last decided to assume their share of the College's over-crowding. It is unfortunate that the masters let this peak year slip by, when the Union was jammed as never before. Meal lines at the theoretically "freshman" enter were of magnitude that threatened to obscure the highly-important activities program, and it seemed clearly up to the Houses to take at least the exiles living in Claverly and Apley. But the Houses contented themselves with...
There should be many benefits under the new system next year. Deflated to normal size, the Union will be able to fulfill the needs of the new class, instead of serving as a proving-ground for line-crashing tactics. Yard upperclassmen will feel more amiable towards the interval before they are placed in House quarters. And the Houses, which can easily stand the "strain" of sizable non-resident groups, should welcome the newcomers as a possible invigorating force for the far from sprightly House activity programs. As a move to distribute the excess student population more fairly, the masters' decision...